Zombie allusions: They just keep on coming-prompting Harvard professors to explore the human condition

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Harvard professor, author Schlozman explores human condition through zombies

Memphis Business Journal by Michael Sheffield, Staff writer

Date: Monday, September 17, 2012

Michael Sheffield

Staff writer- Memphis Business Journal

"Depending on which Mayan or politician you pay attention to, the world will either end in 2012 or be overrun by zombies in the near future.

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The lecture will take a scientific approach to a zombie outbreak, said Jonathan Judaken, the Spence L. Wilson Chair in Humanities at Rhodes, who is helping to organize the event.

“The basic take is, unlike in ‘Night of the Living Dead’ or classic zombie films, people wouldn’t be loading up guns to fire at these people, they’d be investigating the symptoms and studying them through quarantine,” Judaken said. “We’d do an analysis of a zombie brain to explain the human brain and how it responds.”

Judaken said the purpose of tying the lecture in to a zombie outbreak is to help teach people about the human brain, how it works and why humans respond in certain ways to certain events."